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Morgan, Robert,
1944-
Gap Creek :
a novel /
Robert Morgan.
1st Algonquin pbk.
Chapel Hill, N.C. :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2012.
356 p. ;
21 cm.
"The story of a marriage"--Cover.
Originally published in hardcover: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999.
Includes author's note and questions for discussion (p. [327]-334).
Includes a preview of the author's The road from Gap Creek (p. [335]-356).
A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving--all described in detail.
20180413.
Married women
Fiction.
Mountain life
Fiction.
Young women
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Appalachian Region, Southern
Fiction.